Improvement in adjustable spray-jets



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Adjustable spray-Jets;

No. 142,719, Patented September9,873.

Wai'sses.

i. NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ADJUSTABLE SPRAY-JETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,7 [9, dated September 9, 1873; application tiled July 5, 1873.

Po all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, Aivros NicKERsoN, of East Somerville, ofthe county ot' Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Adjustable Spray-J et for watering plants or surfaces; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l denotes a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, ot' it as applied to a common hose jet-tube or nozzle. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section ot it as constituting in itseltl ajet-tube.

In either case the part A is tubular, and it may be a jet-tube or a collar or sleeve to tit UDOIl 0119.

In carrying out my invention, I pivot or hinge to the part A an adjustable stream spreader or detlector, B, having a trapezoidal shape, and provided on its two opposite edges with lips a a, raised on or above it, in manner as shown. The shank b of it turns upon a pivot, c, extends into a socket, s, in the part A, and is provided with an adjusting-screw, D, which screws through it and against the base of the socket, as shown, the same being to admit of the spreader B being varied in its angular position relatively to the axis of the bore ofthe part A.

A stream oi water, on emerging from the nose, or the sleeve A, as the case maybe, will strike against the spreader, and by it will be spread outlaterallyin afan shape, or be broken up into spray, according as the said part B may be adjusted with reference 'to the direction ot' emergence ofthe jet.

In watering plants or grass-plats or washing glass windows the article is of much value.

I disclaim a hose-pipe or spray-jet constructed as represented in the United States Patent No. 9,520, dated January 4, 1853, to Richard Hollin gs, as I dispense With the clasp for carrying the adjusting-screw, and apply such screw directly to the part b ot' the detlector B,thereby greatly simplifying the appara-tus. tus made as shown in Joseph W. Douglass7 rejected application for a patent, filed September 4,1868, which has no adjusting-screw, but has a spring to the deiiector-arm. In my apparatus I have no such spring, and I construct the jet-tube with a socket to receive the arm and screw of the deflector or spreader B.

I therefore claim- The jet-tube A, the socket s, the spreader B, and the screws D, constructed, arranged, and connected or applied together as shown and described.

AMOS NIGKERSON.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER.

Nor do I claim a sprinkling appara- 

